Massachusetts HS football coach quits midseason over 'nonstop,' 'vulgar' abuse from parents on the sidelines

[JustAGuy1]

Kahn Chace has been coaching high school football for 19 years, but after the abuse he says he and his staff suffered from parents on the sidelines, he finally decided mid-season that he was done being heckled and quit mid-season.

According to WBZ-TV, Chace coaches for Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton, Massachusetts. The team is 2-3 this year, but Chace says the abuse started during last season, when the team went 3-8. Chace described the abuse as "nonstop" and "vulgar," and said that after one game last year, an angry parent actually followed one of his assistant coaches to his car after he left the coaching booth.

The abuse got so bad, according to Chace, that he had to resort to having people escort him to his car after the games or sneak out a back exit due to concerns about his own safety. Chace decided to call it quits after he had to tell his wife and young kids not to come to his games. "Now I can't have, I don't want my daughter to hear stuff like that said about her dad," Chace told WBZ.

"Another area coach told the Herald via text, "I coached with Kahn in the Shriners Game. He is a top notch guy and coach. No one wants to coach or officiate any more."

Massachusetts HS football coach quits midseason over 'nonstop,' 'vulgar' abuse from parents on the sidelines | Blaze Media

Kahn Chace has been coaching high school football for 19 years, but after the abuse he says he and his staff suffered from parents on the sidelines, he finally decided mid-season that he was done being heckled and quit mid-season. According to WBZ-TV, Chace coaches for Cardinal Spellman High...

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Complete insanity

 

[Cougarbear]

Kahn Chace has been coaching high school football for 19 years, but after the abuse he says he and his staff suffered from parents on the sidelines, he finally decided mid-season that he was done being heckled and quit mid-season.

According to WBZ-TV, Chace coaches for Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton, Massachusetts. The team is 2-3 this year, but Chace says the abuse started during last season, when the team went 3-8. Chace described the abuse as "nonstop" and "vulgar," and said that after one game last year, an angry parent actually followed one of his assistant coaches to his car after he left the coaching booth.

The abuse got so bad, according to Chace, that he had to resort to having people escort him to his car after the games or sneak out a back exit due to concerns about his own safety. Chace decided to call it quits after he had to tell his wife and young kids not to come to his games. "Now I can't have, I don't want my daughter to hear stuff like that said about her dad," Chace told WBZ.

"Another area coach told the Herald via text, "I coached with Kahn in the Shriners Game. He is a top notch guy and coach. No one wants to coach or officiate any more."

Massachusetts HS football coach quits midseason over 'nonstop,' 'vulgar' abuse from parents on the sidelines | Blaze Media

Kahn Chace has been coaching high school football for 19 years, but after the abuse he says he and his staff suffered from parents on the sidelines, he finally decided mid-season that he was done being heckled and quit mid-season. According to WBZ-TV, Chace coaches for Cardinal Spellman High...

www.theblaze.com

Complete insanity

Nothing new in athletics. Fans abuse the referees as well in all sports. My first year assisting the Varsity Basketball at the high school I was teaching in California saw parents yelling and cussing the head coach. Finally, after the team was 2-21, the head coach screamed the "F" word at a parent and flipped him off. He was fired.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Nothing new in athletics. Fans abuse the referees as well in all sports. My first year assisting the Varsity Basketball at the high school I was teaching in California saw parents yelling and cussing the head coach. Finally, after the team was 2-21, the head coach screamed the "F" word at a parent and flipped him off. He was fired.

I didn't say it was "new". I Reffed Wrestling for 34 years, Umpired for 10 years and Coached Baseball for 10. I've seen everything.

 

[Mr Natural]

I worked with a few former teachers in my day. Each of them had the same complaint as to why they left the profession: the parents.

 

[B. Kidd]

Let's face it!
American sports parents are solidified into the Assholedom Hall of Fame!!
Ugly F'in Americans....boo-yah!!!

 

[Silent Warrior]

I can sympathize. I coached little league baseball for years. Never had any trouble with the kids, but the parents were a different story.

 

[HenryBHough]

It's not limited to sports.

Teachers, right down to ordinary lunch room Personnel are quitting daily over verbal and often physical abuse from undisciplined "children". Friend who had been a professional counselor at a medium size high school quit last week after being hit in the head by a thrown basketball. It was not an accident.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

LOL Brockton. I'm not surprised.

 

[toobfreak]

According to WBZ-TV, Chace coaches for Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton, Massachusetts. The abuse got so bad, according to Chace, that he had to resort to having people escort him to his car

Typical dangerous, threatening behavior by leftwing Bostonian fascists. Now their punk-ass kids will be 0-8. Serves them right.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Typical dangerous, threatening behavior by leftwing Bostonian fascists. Now their punk-ass kids will be 0-8. Serves them right.

I've Reffed all over the Country, it happens everywhere.

 

[Cougarbear]

It's not limited to sports.

Teachers, right down to ordinary lunch room Personnel are quitting daily over verbal and often physical abuse from undisciplined "children". Friend who had been a professional counselor at a medium size high school quit last week after being hit in the head by a thrown basketball. It was not an accident.

Interesting converse of this. My father back in the late 70's was hit in the eye with a book a student threw at him where he was teaching Jr. High. He went to the doctor and the doctor noticed something while treating his eye injury and did some more tests and found he had colon cancer at an early stage. So, there is a silver lining in every cloud. He lived another 6 years before stomach cancer killed him.

 

[LeftofLeft]

I've Reffed all over the Country, it happens everywhere.

The Pendulum has swung too far. Students fear nothing while teachers and coaches now have everything to lose. This culture of non-accountability is a failure.

 

[Quasar44]

LOL Brockton. I'm not surprised.

Is that one of those trashy Boston Irish areas??

 

[JOSweetHeart]

This right here is the very reason why parents need to be banned from the school, but sadly doing just that will only give the problem faculty members more of an opportunity to do whatever they want no matter how illegal their activity may be.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[22lcidw]

I can sympathize. I coached little league baseball for years. Never had any trouble with the kids, but the parents were a different story.

Sports teaches boys and young men to work and bond with each other for future living. The parents, especially the fathers should have learned this when they were children.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Let's face it!
American sports parents are solidified into the Assholedom Hall of Fame!!
Ugly F'in Americans....boo-yah!!!

Its not just an American thing. Parents all over the world have delusions that their kid is the next superstar. Repellant people who scar their kids for life.